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Thread about this poster in Waverley Station, & why I approve it being removed. I am not employed by @NetworkRailEDB & know nothing about their internal decision-making.
This is just what I know abt the person who paid for the #IheartJKRowling poster, & her sources of funding. https://twitter.com/thetimesscot/status/1288724149414830085
This is just what I know abt the person who paid for the #IheartJKRowling poster, & her sources of funding. https://twitter.com/thetimesscot/status/1288724149414830085
The poster was paid for by Posie Parker, the name Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull used on Twitter before Twitter banned her for persistently harassing other Twitter-users. We know this because she talked about it on her Youtube channel. Links here; https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/29/posie-parker-jk-rowling-birthday-poster-edinburgh-scotland-trans-rights-transphobia/ /2
"Posie Parker" doesn't like trans people or Muslims. Her Twitter account has been permanently suspended, but I can personally confirm that she showed no indication of being any kind of #HarryPotter fan & I doubt if she is now. /3
We can make a fair guess then "Posie Parker" didn't pay for this poster, #IheartJKRowling, because she loves Rowling the author of #HarryPotter: "Posie" loves Rowling for Rowling's attacks on trans people. /4 https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/07/jk-rowling-and-the-limits-of-imagination
Here's a thread I posted back in 2018 of screenshots of tweets posted by "Posie Parker" over several years on Twitter, about Muslims. https://twitter.com/EyeEdinburgh/status/1021764302569648128
There's just something about Muslims that Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull doesn't like. /5
There's just something about Muslims that Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull doesn't like. /5
I blogged about Posie Parker and the problem of free speech versus abusive behaviour a couple of years ago: https://edinburgheye.wordpress.com/2018/04/13/free-speech-and-abusive-behaviour/ /6
We know "Posie Parker" is linked to the US Heritage Foundation because Jean Hatchett, who is also an anti-trans activist but enough of a feminist not to want to take money from an alt-right group, blogged about this in January 2019 http://jeanhatchet.blogspot.com/2019/01/why-i-wont-be-standing-for-women.html /7
Three weeks ago, the Herald published an article by someone who works for US hate group Alliance Defending Freedom, attacking the proposed Scottish hate speech bill - I pointed out the writer's links to the US alt-right then: https://twitter.com/EyeEdinburgh/status/1278682159281209345 /8
I think the Heritage Foundation paid for "Posie Parker"'s #IloveJKRowling poster not merely as a dogwhistle to comfort their friends in the anti-trans movement & discomfort trans people using Waverley, but because, like the ADF, they want the legal freedom to use hate speech. /9
This was a win-win situation for the Heritage Foundation: If the poster stayed up, good - anti-trans could use it: if Network Rail had the poster taken down when they realised it was political, not personal, they could use it as a case of Scottish stifling of free speech. /10
J. K. Rowling really is the author of that wonder of publishing, a children's bestseller, a series of books children bought & loved & told their friends about & got them reading. All of that is true, & is probably still what she's best known for in the UK & worldwide. /11
But the fact is, she is also an anti-trans activist. She has used her massive platform of followers on Twitter to promote anti-trans material. She has articles written about this in @PsychToday https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/political-minds/202007/jk-rowling-and-the-chamber-trans-youth-misinformation /12
The Republican Party of the US has used J. K. Rowling's name & her anti-trans writing to justify blocking LGBTQ rights legislation.
"GOP senator quotes J.K. Rowling while blocking vote on LGBTQ bill" /13 https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/gop-senator-quotes-j-k-rowling-while-blocking-vote-lgbtq-n1231569
"GOP senator quotes J.K. Rowling while blocking vote on LGBTQ bill" /13 https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/gop-senator-quotes-j-k-rowling-while-blocking-vote-lgbtq-n1231569
Edinburgh was J. K. Rowling's home. She wrote Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone in cafes here. We were proud to be associated with her as a writer of children's books: Edinburgh has been home & inspiration to many writers.
But we do not wish to be a home to bigotry. /14
But we do not wish to be a home to bigotry. /14
Scotland. No place for transphobes. /15
PS: And on Sunday, a tiny handful of "Posie Parker" supporters had a tiny little demo in front of some very expensive placards to show that they have very little support in #Edinburgh https://twitter.com/notCursedE/status/1290192065951760384
